The frequently repeated statement that Washington was a man without friends is not the least curious of the myths that have obtained general credence.

It is a case of which the simplest statement is the strongest.

The statement of this view of the case, is the best refutation of the claim of a possible justification for the most loving lie imaginable.

If that statement is a bull it is one that must be forgiven for the sake of the truth it conveys.

Lord Kitchener's statement that on the Eastern front the Germans had "almost shot their last bolt" is a better summary, and when we reflect on their enormous superiority in artillery and equipment, that is a great tribute to the strategy of the Grand Duke in conducting the most difficult retreat of modern times.

Adair's statement is probably the most trustworthy.

Taken as a whole, and in connection with notorious facts, these statements are fair examples of manifest tendencies, which certainly are not on the decline.

But all statement of the case is a division of an argument.

This statement is no attempt upon my part to indulge in levity concerning the most frightful situation I have encountered in nearly twenty years of active newspaper work; it is the sober, unexaggerated truth.

These causes are so familiar that their statement is a commonplace.

The popular statement of the opponents of the war abroad is the impossibility of our success.

While such a clear statement is the first step toward a proper understanding of the lesson, it is not enough.

That statement, which we all made during the War, was a weapon to be used at the time; now that the War is over, it cannot be looked on as a serious argument.

" Friend Hopper listened patiently, perfectly well aware that the whole statement was a sham.

These statements were the substance of a formal report which he had just prepared for the eye of Sir Lionel Smith, and which he was kind enough to read to us.

The statements in question were not rumours, they were deliberate expressions of opinion on the part of a man who had first-hand information and knew what he was saying.

We must remember that a general statement is merely a snap-shot at flying truth, an instantaneous photograph of a moving body.

[Footnote: This statement is an error on the part of Xiphilinus, who thought that "Comazon" (in Greek=The Reveler) was a nickname for a certain Eutychianus.

Statement, method, imagery, selection, tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts, of illuminating them, of sinking them by ridicule or by diversion of the mind, rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts are not eloquence, and do often hinder a man's attainment of it.

Here the statement about the 'spirit' is a mere savage philosophical explanation.

The statement that competition is not an effective regulator of railroads often is misunderstood to mean that it in no way acts on rates.

Now, though the main statement of that document may not be true, such an incidental circumstance as this, which has no direct bearing on "the vexed question," may be admitted.

If, in telling about a baseball game, you mentioned a particular "fly," your statement was description or narration; but if some one should ask what you meant by "a fly," your answer would be general in character; that is, it would apply to all "flies," and would belong to that division of composition called exposition.

As regards Barbadoes, I have spared no pains to discover whether such statements were facts, and I now am happy to say, that not a single instance of unnatural conduct on the part of the negro parents to their children has come to my knowledgefar, perhaps too far, the contrary is the case; over indulgence and petting them seems in my judgment to be the only matter the parents can be, with any justice, accused of.

In answer to our inquiry at the principal office of the Würtemberg State Railways we were informed that the statements are pure inventions.